Issue 34: Failure

ORDURES

Gary Carsley & Stella Rosa McDonald

The argument for Failure is counter-intuitive and necessarily includes an inquiry into the characteristics of Success.

This uneven trio contains aborted arrangements and textual remains. It is shaped by a sullen mood of refusal- of authorship, discipline, consistent legibility and feelings of productivity. These are better for the bin, where they might mingle with other ordures, and be left to rot and decay. Even there, their utility can’t be overlooked.

We have no instructions for how these files are to be used or, indeed, ignored.

GARY CARSLEY

Gary Carsley is a confabulator who lives on the hill at Woolloomooloo. He has been described variously as a tourist in the realm of seriousness and an avid gardener. With
respect to the latter he invariably points out that avid is diva spelt backwards. Gary was recently included in The National – New Australian Art, apparently by accident and currently somewhere over the rainbow, he is working under the assumed name If Looks Could Kill. He has a boyfriend whom he is unable by law to marry and among other things he believes that complexity is the new porn and that memory is one of the few authentic sites of resistance available to artists.

STELLA ROSA MCDONALD

Stella Rosa McDonald is an artist and writer based in Sydney. She has contributed writing to Vitamin P3, New Perspectives in Painting (Phaidon), Ocula, The Art Life, Art & Australia, Art Collector and her fiction and poetry have appeared in Overland and Voiceworks. She holds a Master of Fine Arts by Research from COFA, UNSW, where she received the 2014 Dean’s Award for Research Excellence. She is the associate manager of Minerva, Sydney.

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